Beauties of continental architecture

Coney, John

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Persistenter Identifier:: 1460979038851

Titel:: Beauties of continental architecture

Untertitel:: in a series of views of ancient cathedrals and other remarkable public buildings, in France, the Netherlands, Germany and Italy

Künstler/Illustrator:: Coney, John

Verleger/Verlag:: M. A. Nattali

Erscheinungsort:: London

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1843

Sprache:: englisch; französisch

Strukturtyp:: Monografie

Besitzende Institution:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Standort:: Universitätsbibliothek Stuttgart

Signatur:: 1Kc 1099

Lizenz:: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/deed.de

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Titel:: The Cathedral, Antwerp

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- & THE CATHEDRAL, ANTWERP. The Church of Notre Dame, or the Cathedral, is a most admirable piece of architecture, far surpassing any similar edifice in the Netherlands. The foundation of the choir was laid in the year 1124, at which time the church itself was also built, and dedicated by Burchard, Bishop of Cambray, as recorded in the following Latin verses— Undecies centum ductis, et sex quater annis Virginis a partu conciliante reum, Burchardus Preesul hac atria nec minus aram Sacravit, medium, quod tenet Ecclesia. The total length of the edifice is 500 feet; its breadth 240. It is said that it was one hundred years building. Only one of the towers however was completed, but this is of unrivalled beauty. Its height is differently stated at 420 and 470 feet. From the gallery, near the summit, there is a most splendid prospect of the sur rounding country, embracing the city, with its highly cultivated environs, and extending to Malines, Brussels, Louvain, and Ghent on the one hand, and on the other to the sea and the islands of Zealand. The late siege of the Citadel, has doubtless impaired the beauty of the nearer part of the prospect, the noble avenues of trees having been for the most cut down, the gardens desolated, and the fortress converted into a heap of ruins. There were formerly sixty-eight bells, some of them of extraordinary size. The Cathedral contained sixty-six chapels, enriched with marble columns, all different, and adorned with beautiful paintings. Great and irreparable damage was done to this magnificent edifice by a dreadful fire in 1533, which destroyed the fifty-seven altars, consumed the whole of the roof, and calcined many of the marble columns. The tower, which was already in flames, was saved by the heroic exer tions of the Burgomaster, Lancelot Ursel, who, at the hazard of his life, and encouraging the people by his promises and example, happily rescued this noble edifice from destruction. It was subsequently pillaged and devastated during the civil and religious wars. It still possesses some fine paintings, among which is the celebrated altar-piece by Rubens, restored to its original place by the intervention of the Duke of Wellington, after the battle of Waterloo. During the late unex pected bombardment the Cathedral was not injured; and when it was apprehended, that the siege of the Citadel by the French might cause the bombardment to be repeated, the magistrates took all possible precautions to secure the master-piece of their illustrious countryman. Happily the efficacy of these precautions was not put to the proof. The Church of Notre Dame, formerly collegiate, in the diocese of Cambray, was erected into a Cathedral, by Pope Paul IV. in 1559.

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